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ESDS national data archiving and dissemination service jointly supported by: –Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) –Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) initial five year funding commitment

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ESDS Overview provides access and support for key economic and social data distributed service, bringing together centres of expertise in data creation, dissemination, preservation and use provides seamless and easier access to a range of disparate resources for UK Higher and Further Education sectors core archiving services plus four specialist data services

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Types of collections Data for research and teaching purposes and used in all sectors and for many different disciplines surveys censuses registers aggregate statistics text (digital) and images

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Sources of data official agencies - mainly central government international statistical time series individual academics - research grants market research agencies public records/historical sources access to international data via links with other data archives worldwide

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Collection held at UKDA 5,000+ datasets in the collection 200+ new datasets are added each year 6,500+ orders for data per year 18,000+ datasets distributed worldwide per year history data service in-house (AHDS) access to international data via links with other data archives worldwide